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• Causes of Stress
• Overpacked curriculum
• Fear of being wrong
• Test-taking
• Frustration with difficult material
• Boredom from lack of stimulation!
• Embarrassment ( to read aloud)
Stress- The Diagnosis of
the 21st century
• Stressed state : nor pre-frontal cortex= low memory
• Positive emotional state: PFC= passage of information and
memory engaged
• Boredom makes you do crazy things- it may create its own fun or
novelty
• Lower Brain output is involuntary in the state of stress- which is
fight, flight or freeze!
• Most often, it is not the child’s choice- misbehavior is when the
lower brain is in control
• Boredom is stressful!
• So what do we do?
• Create a community and classroom culture that feels
safe and accepting.
• Consistent guidelines
• Teach students ways to control their own responses and
monitoring their emotions
• Visualizations and activities that are physical and tactile-
movement engages 100% of the brain which no cognitive
skill or strategy can do this!
Dopamine driven students!
• Movement
• Playing music
• Story-telling
• Choices
• Gratitude circles or journals
• Interaction with friends, social exposure
• Video Games
• Why are they so powerful and keep a child’s attention
• 1. Achievable challenge- they can see and feel their success
• 2. Incremental Progress-gives students evidence of their
incremental goals
• This is why we differentiate!